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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Ed
Too many fat wallets make me feel like I will never touch the greatness of some of those items. I know, wah wah, poor me. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
There are more affordable items in the auction too. Not everyone can own a 1914 Babe Ruth but you can still find something to add to your collection. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Steve M.
Happy to report I received my catalogues though unhappy to report that FedEx left them on the stoop and it is snowing like crazy here (IL) today. Thankfully they are in waterproof mailers. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Brian
So much for a "market peak." The bids are already going through the roof, and they are far from closing price. Great stuff indeed, but how do they come up with those absurd estimates? They are not even close to reality. I guess they are trying to avoid scaring us off..... |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Jason L
regarding the estimates in the catalog...because those are the only thing I can cling to for hope of ever being in the market for some of these things....sadly, the truth is I am many multiples away, financially...but fun to look at nonetheless! |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
I'm puzzled as to why the bids are so high so early. When I checked the 1914 Ruth yesterday it had 33 bids and was at 100K (it may already be higher). And that's in the first 24 hours. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Alan
I completely agree. I's totally depressing that I have no chance in hell to win any lot. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Max Weder
Barry |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Bill K
I concur Ed, but what really gets me as I'm sure it does everyone....wouldn't it be great to "discover" some of these cards? 1914 Ruth & team, a Plank or two, etc, etc, etc. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Jim Clarke
Still no catalogs on my end here from REA. Fed-Ex is by far the worst company to use. They do NOT have their act together for rural areas of the Country. They outsource delieries to smaller companies. Plus if you have ever signed a Fed-Ex sticker in your life that was left at your door they claim that gives them permission to leave ANY package at your door without having a signiture.. Use USPS.. It's the safest way! JC |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: leon
Anything but overnight or 2nd day Fedex sucks, imo...and I have a lot of experience in shipping as I ship at least 5 million dollars a year of computer equipment....I have my Mastro catalogs...got them yesterday. No REA yet....and I too live in a smaller suburb.....I guess Fedex ground is the best shipping cost? Still, I have placed many bids on line in both auctions...but the catalogs are great...I was late to work this morning because of the Mastro ones ...... |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
Max- while I agree that rich collectors can bid as they choose, isn't the goal to actually win the card? They can keep bidding all day long if they want, but the winner will be the one who puts in the last bid on the last day. It's not an issue of wealth, but one of poor strategy. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: George Dreher
<Is there already a bidding war going on? |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: dstudeba
Barry - |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
George- assuming you are correct, and I tend to agree with you, exactly what is being accomplished? I'd make you a wager (if there was some way to determine it) that none of the people who are fighting for the Babe Ruth card today will ultimately win it, and that the eventual winner has quietly placed his qualifier and will not come back until the end. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Barry, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Cat
This is an auction that I have adjusted my strategy. Instead of focusing on one or two cards "that I have to have" I have preliminary bids on 30 and will figure out which cards I'll pick up on the last day(s). I might pick up five that reach my budget amount or I might pick up one higher cost card, but I will start making those decisions on April 26th at 10 pm PST. Be light on your feet. That's the key. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
Good one Peter |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: paulstratton
Just got mine and I'm on the Left Coast, in the middle of nowhere. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: George Dreher
Barry, agree with you about the bidding wars accomplishing nothing. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Dave
I believe the high bids are indicative of the current state of vintage sports material. when you turn on CNBC and the host is saying that sports collectibles are as safe as buying gold it's ridiculous. I know the guy was just kidding, but this type of "hype" is all over the place. Everything pre-1920 is all of the sudden "rare" and "scarce". My brother and I are bidding on about 10 lots in the REA , but don't expect to win a single lot after looking at the current bids. We were willing to bid generously on a few lots, but they have already exceeded what I think they are realistically worth. Notice I use the word realistic. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Dave, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Justin
I only recently started collecting vintage, and am having trouble gauging what the market is going to do. I am collecting primarily low-grade stuff, but even that seems to be increasing in value by leaps and bounds. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: nbrazil
I hear what you're feeling, Ed. I am planning to bid on only one item...a low grade example of somewhat scarce card...and it's already above my 2nd threshold (I have 3 thresholds...the 1st is the "Okay, it's reached my ideal price...but i want the card, so i'll still bid". My 2nd is "Oh oh, this is trouble. re-evaluate my need and want for the card and bid accordingly." My last threshold is "Next time, I guess."). |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: barrysloate
Justin- I've been active in the hobby since the early 1980's, and while I have seen peaks and valleys I have never seen anything like what is going on now. The market seems to defy gravity but you have to wonder if it will go on forever. Obviously, it can't, but nobody can really explain this phenomenon either, other than rich people seem to be getting a whole lot richer. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Barry, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Justin
So with that in mind, how does the low grade stuff(particularly T206 and HOF RC's) stuff stand as an investment? That's not really why I am collecting, but I don't want to get sucked in to overpaying on stuff that won't hold its value. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Justin, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Justin
I was thinking more in general. I almost exclusively use ebay, as the big auction houses tend to auction really high end, high graded cards. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Justin, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Steve f
It's spelled thermometer |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Jason L
perhaps it won't be long until we see someone produce a real-time ticker display to show all these escalating card prices/values! |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Jason L., |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Bob
The REA catalogue reached the Ozarks yesterday. Since I had already placed many bids, I was glad to see it. I noticed that several of you hang on to these catalogues (REA, Mastro, Lelands, etc.)after the fact, for years and years. I generally chuck mine the next day, too many memories of cards I would like to have won but didn't |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Bob, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Josh Adams
Did the entire Dorskind group predict this, or just you, Brucey my boy?! |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Josh, |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Dylan
The market needs to stabilize you say? The market has been in a boom ever since the early days of the internet. As long as the internet is growing, i cant see how are market will stop growing, i think the two are attatched at the hip. |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: Dan Bretta
That's a good point Dylan. I too think the internet is responsible for helping the market expand by making so much material available. I know a lot of people get misty eyed thinking about the good ol' days of weekend card shows and 400 page SCD's but how many of them would do away with ebay and the internet to go back to the good ol' days? |
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REA is beautiful, but browsing bids leaves me depressed
Posted By: peter chao
Dan, |
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